plans

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a6b65dd	"Ester asked why people are sad. "That's simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams."	future happiness life plans sadness	Paulo Coelho
00b6a85	"Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. "You have a plan?" Percy wanted to step forward bravely and say, "	percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians plans reyna the-heroes-of-olympus the-son-of-neptune	Rick Riordan
22c5b6f	There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.	goals inspirational plans success	Will Smith
e8963d9	All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.	mice-men planning plans unpredictability	Arthur C. Clarke
6311925	The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways-and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.	behavior change conversation day fear love plans tension truth waiting	Paulo Coelho
2ed18ed	"TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most."	dreams inspirational life plans success words	Napoleon Hill
7448edf	When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).	god inspirational life plans purpose schedule will-of-god	Elisabeth Elliot
37f7f7c	"That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?"	hiccup plans toothless ziggerastica	Cressida Cowell
2c82744	We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction. Hell is life drying up.	change grace life moving-forward plans vitality	Joseph Campbell
388dcb3	As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.	guns ideas life plans protection safety weapons world	Colson Whitehead
ba8ecd2	Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.	goals jodi-picoult lone-wolf plans	Jodi Picoult
1ab0167	I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclinations which do me and nobody else any harm, and actually give pleasure to those I love best. There, gentlemen, since you wanted to know how I was getting on, I have told you. Much good may it do you! I cannot explain further here. I perceive there is something wrong somewhere in our social formulas: what it is can only be discovered by men or women with greater insight than mine--if, indeed, they ever discover it-- at least in our time. 'For who knoweth what is good for man in this life?--and who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?	life plans youth	Thomas Hardy
fda4975	"Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans."	plans	Orson Scott Card
8564f82	... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.	christopher-marlowe faust faustian faustus grand-plans imprisionment imprison man mankind marlowe mind philosophical planning plans sad-but-true when-plans-go-wrong when-things-fall-apart	E.A. Bucchianeri
5839b0b	Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.	believe darkness debate equal falsehood feel feeling freedom heart light meaning nonsense optimism optimists plan plans public reason scheme schemes truth unreason vitality	Roger Scruton
cf2644d	Sometimes it's just true that other people have better ideas for your life than you do.	plans	Elizabeth Gilbert
46107b0	"Good," said Creed. "I always like it when a captain has a plan; makes getting killed a lot less random."	plans	Raymond E. Feist
7c0acb4	Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.	planning plans thinking travel	Max Barry

a6b65dd

"Ester asked why people are sad. "That's simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams."

future happiness life plans sadness

Paulo Coelho

00b6a85

"Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. "You have a plan?" Percy wanted to step forward bravely and say, "

percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians plans reyna the-heroes-of-olympus the-son-of-neptune

Rick Riordan

22c5b6f

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

goals inspirational plans success

Will Smith

e8963d9

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

mice-men planning plans unpredictability

Arthur C. Clarke

6311925

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways-and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

behavior change conversation day fear love plans tension truth waiting

Paulo Coelho

2ed18ed

"TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most."

dreams inspirational life plans success words

Napoleon Hill

7448edf

When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

god inspirational life plans purpose schedule will-of-god

Elisabeth Elliot

37f7f7c

"That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?"

hiccup plans toothless ziggerastica

Cressida Cowell

2c82744

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction. Hell is life drying up.

change grace life moving-forward plans vitality

Joseph Campbell

388dcb3

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.

guns ideas life plans protection safety weapons world

Colson Whitehead

ba8ecd2

Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.

goals jodi-picoult lone-wolf plans

Jodi Picoult

1ab0167

I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclinations which do me and nobody else any harm, and actually give pleasure to those I love best. There, gentlemen, since you wanted to know how I was getting on, I have told you. Much good may it do you! I cannot explain further here. I perceive there is something wrong somewhere in our social formulas: what it is can only be discovered by men or women with greater insight than mine--if, indeed, they ever discover it-- at least in our time. 'For who knoweth what is good for man in this life?--and who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

life plans youth

Thomas Hardy

fda4975

"Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans."

plans

Orson Scott Card

8564f82

... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

christopher-marlowe faust faustian faustus grand-plans imprisionment imprison man mankind marlowe mind philosophical planning plans sad-but-true when-plans-go-wrong when-things-fall-apart

E.A. Bucchianeri

5839b0b

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.

believe darkness debate equal falsehood feel feeling freedom heart light meaning nonsense optimism optimists plan plans public reason scheme schemes truth unreason vitality

Roger Scruton

cf2644d

Sometimes it's just true that other people have better ideas for your life than you do.

plans

Elizabeth Gilbert

46107b0

"Good," said Creed. "I always like it when a captain has a plan; makes getting killed a lot less random."

plans

Raymond E. Feist

7c0acb4

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.

planning plans thinking travel

Max Barry